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Introduction to Wikipedia for the Smithsonian Modified from the original "Introduction to Wikipedia" by User:DGG, July 7, 2009 version, at http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:DGG/NYPL as well as http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:DG/PTS

For a guide to Wikipedia, check out Help:Wikipedia: The Missing Manual


Reading and using Wikipedia

Presentation slide show under development at https://docs.google.com/present/edit?id=0ASIGxxsHQLhwZGdjcWgzYjlfMjlmMjV2Y3JmZw&hl=en#

Wikipedia, what is it?

This will be a discussion with some basic answers and statistics (15-20 minutes)'

  1. When you hear Wikipedia what do you think?
    1. What is it:
      1. A Free and Open encyclopedia
        1. What do we mean by free?
      2. Not censored
      3. of contributers?
      4. of articles?
  2. Who edits Wikipedia? What do they do?
    1. Everyday people, mostly college educated, many with graduate degrees. Mostly with highly focused approaches to certain topic areas.
    2. They collaborate and Be Bold, everything is made using these two simple principles. All content is made when someone decides it ought to be made or when someone convinces others it ought to be made.
      1. Remember that being bold means there's very little you can do to mess something up permanently. Feel free to take risks.
  3. What controls quality on Wikipedia?
    1. There are a series of consensus built policies on Wikipedia including
      1. WikiProjects
      2. Article Reviews
      3. 1.0 Assessment
      4. Policies which determine inclusion of material, including WP:Notability, WP:Verifiability and WP:RS
    2. Content quality control comes from having lots of other editors to look at and improve your content.
    3. Also there are practices used to prevent the addition of vandalism and arbitrary additions
      1. Recent changes
      2. Watchlists
      3. New Page feed
      4. Login to start pages
      5. Edit filters
      6. Patrolled pages for Biography of Living people (forthcoming)
      7. Deletion
  4. What problems does Wikipedia have?
  • What are the problems?:
  • Accuracy; updating; stability; edit wars/WP:OWNership
  • Fairness; WP:COI
  • Poorly covered areas : History, Traditional Humanities fields
  • Uneven depth in even fairly well covered areas
  • Spam

10-15 minutes, mostly driven by presenter

  • Searching
  • Wikipedia Search box and other search engines (Wikipedia is almost always at the top of searches)
  • Evaluating articles
  • Sourcing (Wikipedia:Verifiability; WP:RS); External links (WP:EL)
  • Article history (active histories tend to be controversal or in the news, whereas stable articles will have more consistant supervision)
  • Talk page - Wikiprojects rate their own articles; discussion of article improvement
  • Explain the discussion page
  • Explain the other tabs and what is on each tab.

Getting started

30 minutes with some click through and Users working with hands on edits

Log in to your User Account
User sandbox creation
Go to one of the following Smithsonian related stubs and make a change in groups of 3 with Wikipedian to answer questions
Smithsonian users should also look at
Leland Ossian Howard
Franklin Richard Bruns Jr.
Leonard Carmichael
Western Heritage Center
Lockheed Model 8 Sirius
Brian Harold Mason

What is Conflict of Interest?

5-10 minutes

  1. You are an employee of the Smithsonian, therefore you have a conflict of interest
  2. Declaration of conflict of interest, examples include:

Getting Help

Other internal sources

Follow-up

  • If you need help, contact the Smithsonian Institution project at WP:GLAM/SI
  • The teachers of the class can be contacted at User talk:Sadads ...... (Add more)
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